I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable..

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before..

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out..

I do like to be surprised..

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things..

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is..

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop..

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power..

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good..

I grill, therefore I am..

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you..

I have a family to feed..

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more..

To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being….

To do or not to do... that is the question..

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh..