There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.

Do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it

When it gets easy, I worry about things.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that's important in the UK national interest and I believe it's important in the US national interest