I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.

If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.

Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for the ride?

Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.