From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

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

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.