In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.

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

Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.