I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.

He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

Life is all about making choices, as in a game of chess. The moves from other side are predetermined against every move of yours. But with each move, you shift your destiny for better or worse.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

Not only don't I know what tomorrow will bring, I'm still not entirely certain what yesterday brought?

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

I agree that zinc is one of the important micro-nutrients but people require a balanced blend of food for our biological engines.

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.