Progress? Oh, I think so. The iceman melteth.

Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

Novel writing is solitary work.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.