We are always children to our mothers.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Motivation and determination for anything comes from within. One can not barrow it from someone else.

Money is not my definition of success

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

If you had five photos of anuses, I could not point mine out.

A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.