As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things..

Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money..

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a….

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up..

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences..

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future..

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the….

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one..

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why..

a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't ….

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing..

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes..

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation..

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itse….

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesd….

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head..

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the ….

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind..

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on….

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking….