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

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.

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

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

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