Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.