I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.

When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was working at an ice-cream stand in my thirties. I learned that when you don't have anything to give, that's when you really give, and then you get back so much more.

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.