You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.