It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.