I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Cheese!" I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

In a perfect world, I would do 3 weeks on 3 weeks off; so that I could always take a breather and come back to music with a fresh mind.

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.