Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.