Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

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.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

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

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.