All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

There is always time for failure

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.