The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.