If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

All men are brothers. Hence war.

Like many supermodels, I won't get out of bed for less than £3000. Unlike many supermodels, I don't get out of bed very often.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.