It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.

Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

The Summer Book is beautiful and warm, with the kind of wisdom we can adapt to our everyday lives.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.