Cats are only human, they have their faults.

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

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.