There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky.

The health of the eye demands a horizon.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.