There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."