I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Subjectivity is objective.

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.