The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

Books do furnish a room.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

I have no stress, because I am the best.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.