A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

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

Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

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.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

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