If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her good advice, and she'd say: 'I entirely agree. Paul, you're so right.' Then she'd go and do the opposite.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.