But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.