[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.