All America is much the same.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

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