Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.