Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

The key to life is imagination.