I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

She was delighted to meet her old self when the wind unexpectedly blew in her direction. The remains of whom she had burnt to ashes & scattered in the air