Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.
The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it
No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.
The Italians. . . you can't find one who is honest.
Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.