"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

"We're actors. We're the opposite of people."

"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."

"Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want."

"Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it."

"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."

"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."

"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"

"My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers."

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

"If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life."

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."

"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."

"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."

"The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists."

"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."

"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."

"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."

"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

"Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect."