My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.