In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

I shall drink no #‎ wine before it's time! OK, it's time.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.