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

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

Cats are only human, they have their faults.

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

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

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

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