One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.