But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.

When you ask, expect the answer.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.

The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

I observe myself and I come to know others.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.