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

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

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

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)."