I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.