I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.