The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.