Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85, 000 people and they'll sing it back for 85, 000 different reasons.

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.

That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.