Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.