in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

People who can write a book usually do.

I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

I don't understand why did jesus give life to the dead when they have to die again?

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

No woman is completely happy with their body.

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.