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

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

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

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.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.