"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later."

"American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic."

"Necessity does the work of courage."

"The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich."

"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."