There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.