He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

I was laughing and he was too, and there we were, tangled up together in the water and sunshine. In a good kind of way.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.

I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

I am at heart a gentleman.

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.