Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.