Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 16, 1922 Death: October 22, 1995
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing..
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them..
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch..
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them..
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….
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..
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic..
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children..
Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work..
Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way..
More always means worse..
He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover..
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence..
Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking my….
A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy..
Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had….
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other..
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, ….
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and grist….
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root..