when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

There can be no great love without exclusivity.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

Hate is funny. Love isn't. Love can kill you. Hate can keep you alive.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

You don't need a time machine to live in the moment.

unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home . . . lovers alone wear sunlight.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

She considered herself unconventional.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.