Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.