You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

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.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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