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

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

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

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

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

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

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.