History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.