Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.