Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)."

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.

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