If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.

Every generation of children has its private hero.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.