Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.