Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.