It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.

Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

No one should be judge in his own case.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.