Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Cats are only human, they have their faults.

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.