If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

I thought men like that shot themselves.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

Take the first step. No more, no less, and the next will be revealed.

Ignorance is an illusion

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

This is America. We're allowed to draw whatever we want.

World, you are beautifully drest.