Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking