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

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

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.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)."