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.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

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

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

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.