As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home