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

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

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.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

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

My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.