First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

The greatest strategy is doomed if it's implemented badly.

Internal reform in Russia would require a better relationship with the West.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.

True friends are always together in spirit.

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it.