Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

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

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.