I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.