I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.