I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

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

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

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

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.