The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

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.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

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