You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

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 have spent my whole life educating myself.

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

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

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

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.