At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

Don't face the facts.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.