If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

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.

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

More always means worse.

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

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.