Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Promise is the capacity for letting people down.
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.