The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).

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

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

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

I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.