I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.