I think I'm a focus for international attention.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.