Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

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

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.

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

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.