Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Things there are no solution to: Inflation, bureaucracy & dandruff.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

"I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects."

"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing, and without enjoying swearing.

Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship’.

It was a Tuesday in February. Many my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.