[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Love is someone you can be silly with

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.