I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior - and that's the human being.

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

Not one word of the following is true

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.