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

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

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

Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.

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

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.

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.