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

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

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

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

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

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

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