There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.