At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.