I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.

You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.

Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.