Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first..

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich..

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished..

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine..

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit..

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them..

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the h….

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer..

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness..

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well..

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue..

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night..

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world..

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only t….

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops..

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought..

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich..

Sex is a conversation carried out by another means..

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic..

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon..

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me i….