If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.