The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.

In England, nobody's your friend.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.