The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science.

Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

Every poker player is smarter than me.

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.