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

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.