It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

I just don't believe in generalisations.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”