We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.