My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.