I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.

To be wise for one day is better than to be intelligent for a hundred.

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

Women wrap men with their second attention.

There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

Politics is the best game in town.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.