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

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

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

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.

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

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