I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.