Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

Working gets in the way of living.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.

i read to escape reality.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.