It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you..

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto..

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is..

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him..

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 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….

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go..

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction..

I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drun….

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen..

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with..

I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from….

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in..

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 ….

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure..

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss.….

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on th….

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music..

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….

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..

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing..