The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.