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

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.

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

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

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.