Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.

Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays.

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.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.