The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

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

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

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.