Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

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.

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

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.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

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

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.