Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.