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

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

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

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

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

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.