[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

One of the most important things you could actually do in life is to create the best of yourself, to create your ideal self.

Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

You manufacture beauty with your mind

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it.