I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

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

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

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.