Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

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

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

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.

It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

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

My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and if I was to even understand what was going on, I had to learn the language fast.