I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.