I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
My films are about embarrassment.
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail, listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.