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

Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.

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

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

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.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.