I have always noticed that people only think you are stupid if you do things differently from them.

But druggies don't keep their looks any longer than they keep their promises.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.

That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.

There are no insensitive hearts, just hearts that don't find it profitable anymore to feel.

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

Be merry if you are wise.

I want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that's gonna love me back. Is that psycho?

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Don’t just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.