It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.