First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't