I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

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

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

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