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

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

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.

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.