Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

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.