duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

If you can't love me in my rugs, you don't deserve me in my riches

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

Whatever it is, you have to show up for the job, and power through.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.