I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.

It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.

The United States are a miracle: the division between two states is sometimes a river or a mountain, and sometimes it's a straight line. But nobody says, "That tree really belongs in South Carolina. I shan't do anything about it now, I'll get it back later." I shall go after I am here to London and after that to Potsdam, where Comrade Stalin, Mr Churchill and Harry Truman divided up Europe; and what we see now is the result of that. The Americans would have accepted it. But Europeans don't accept anything.

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of this?" And the actor never says, "Well, last week I was a murderer, and the week before that I was a child molester, and the week before that I was a lunatic. But now I'm a homosexual."