"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."

"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house."

"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."

"My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive."

"When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself."

"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do."

"Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman' Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy."