There's always something fishy about the French.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

I like being close to the bats.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.