I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.