It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areasit has never been before!

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.