No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

We still kissed frequently, usually a cluster of small pecks. An acronym for our early deep kisses. Which in a way was more intimate because only we knew what it stood for.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.

Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.

I think the universe is so big you can't really deal with everybody.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.