Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.