I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.