Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.

Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

When I was young I never believed that Australia was anything else except blessed. I thought it was a little dull when I was young, but that was 'cause I was a snob.