That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

I'm happy. I don't ever have to pay anything, and I don't ever have to wash the dishes, and I don't ever have to behave nicely.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?

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

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.

I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.