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

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

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 true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.