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

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

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.

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.