You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

(About sweeping)....What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

Kindness is the best form of justice.

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.

What is lived is what is valued.

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

Older age has taught one crucial lesson about life. It has taught me that regardless of where I've been I still have much to see and despite every fall I still haven't experienced it all.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.