Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

patience is an integral part of talent.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.