It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?

Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think about sex: they become lawyers.

When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy is sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed.

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

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers