Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.