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.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

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

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.