Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.

The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.

It's no good saying one thing and doing another.

Constancy in a man is rare.

Her love for him was almost like a pain in itself.

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times?

Try not to worry, for time is a great healer.' Such words were futile.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.