Europeans are quarrelsome.

I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.