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

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.