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

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

There is always time for failure

When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me about the house all day 'wearing a dressing gown, brewing tea and stumped for words'.

I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

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