It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.

It's almost like he has Dr. Who's Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

We shall build on. On through the cynic

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

Everybody's got regrets. Everybody's made mistakes. Nobody's perfect.

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.