the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.