Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.