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

When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begi….

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..

Cats are only human, they have their faults..

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do..

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..

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat..

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones..

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any ….

With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I fee….

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

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 sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other..

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..

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free..

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way..

Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto..

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.….

He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover..

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

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children..