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

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.

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

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

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.

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

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.