Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.