All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else