I would prefer not to.

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers — ambition and indigestion.

Don’t waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

I have worked with some great directors.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

When you're winning, everyone is a fan.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.