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

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.

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

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

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

More always means worse.