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

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

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

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

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

More always means worse.