Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.