The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.