We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.