When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.