Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

You can't react to a man's kiss like that and expect him to forget you.

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.