"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."

"Don't be humble... you're not that great."

"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."

"It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling."

"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."

"My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that."

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."