As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Not money, not fame and not positions can transform an enemy into a friend but rather, it is love that can do such a job.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Don't judge what you don't know.

He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

You're in an awfully good mood," he observed. "Was there a sale at Khakis-R-Us?

Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding," “Why are they all high-calorie foods?

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.