When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of...

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly...

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body,...

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who...

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to...

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art…I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.