A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.