I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Everyone wants to get out of living where they're living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun. But when you think back to earlier times, you only extrapolate the nice things.

Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.