Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

What will survive of us is love.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.

The hormonal interplay inside a woman’s head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what’s important. They mold her desires and values.

Be happy while you are looking for happiness because our purpose of life is to be happy.

Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

Another important time when I feel most alive is when I hear a song that I love so much that all I can do is dance - I feel so free!

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.