When I first saw you, you were like . . . ' He shakes his head, tugs gently on my hair. 'A rainbow. I always knew you came with a storm.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Everyone looks so much better when they smile.

My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.