I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer..

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic..

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong..

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins aroun….

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

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not a….

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..

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence..

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….

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….

I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rul….

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….

I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses ….

Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time..

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

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

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and ….

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had….

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy..

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significan….

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by….