[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it ….

But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga un….

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading sh….

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jerm….

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards..

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do..

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always ou….

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people..

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts….

There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over the years Miss Shep….

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that ….

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class twe….

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of….

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water..

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means..

Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those….

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching..

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti….

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's som….