I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.