I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

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.

I wanted to bring Lissa back, and I wanted to return to Adrian's arms again, return to his lips and all this life..."Hathaway! Good God, do I have to hose you down?

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

The sea is the universal sewer.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep