Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.

I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from above and they said "These are the gods you will worship, these are the crops you will grow, now go away and do it." Which is a manly attitude. Americans go abroad and they say, "Try not to quarrel so much", which is a feminine attitude.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.

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

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you