Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 16, 1922 Death: October 22, 1995
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them..
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them..
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Part….
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch..
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing..
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music..
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for..
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go..
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, ….
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree..
The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statemen….
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time..
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at ….
You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is tha….
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with..
Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food..
Sex stops when you pull up your pants, Love never lets you go..
Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of t….
How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way….
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking a….
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization..