It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.