Everything in life is elusive.

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.