Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.