No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

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.