You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

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

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

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