The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

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

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.