New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.