I really believe that you have to earn things. I don't feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
Old age is women's hell.
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.
I don't think taste is about money. As your career develops, you're able to decide what to spend your money on. I live in a really small apartment in London, and that's a choice. I live at The Carlyle in New York, but it's not big. It's about making choices of style over flashiness. People's style is subjective and mine happens to be around the classical because I feel comfortable with that, and because of my background. I'm probably living in the wrong time. I should have lived in the Thirties or the Fifties.
Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.
It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day. . .