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.
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.
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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.
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 the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?
Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
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.
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can’t go along with it.
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.
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.