The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

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 told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.