I have the experience of age and suffering.

I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.'

We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so we are as needy and wanting to be part of him, as he, obviously, was needing and wanting to be part of us. And that's why I've really taken the freedom, because it's an adaptation, to give her a voice.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.