You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Are you sure this is a good idea?’ I ask.‘No, ’ says Amber. ‘Let’s do it.

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

There are so many things that I would love to do. I'd love to do a drama. I just enjoy doing very different things.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

I create the world that I live in.