The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.

Chivalry is not only dead, it’s decomposed.

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Write the way you talk. Naturally.

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.