It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.