I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

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

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

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.

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.

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