Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.