“My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.”
“I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is―a politician.”
“If I say “No decision has been made,” it’s a lie—because I have decided to remain undecided.”
“I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.”
“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.”
“Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.”