A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for..

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another..

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it..

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….

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

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for..

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….

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

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 ….

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 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..

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

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..

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….