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

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.