money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.

Let living and love, be one.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.