I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Success and talent aren’t even in the same neighborhood.

An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet

We could use some good luck. That doesn’t mean we’ll get it.

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.

I started training for musicals since I was a boy.

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.