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.

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

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.

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

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

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

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