The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

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.

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.

If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.