The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.

- Keith Waterhouse

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

- Keith Waterhouse

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

- Keith Waterhouse

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

- Keith Waterhouse

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

- Keith Waterhouse

I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

- Keith Waterhouse

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

- Keith Waterhouse

Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find t…

- Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?

- Keith Waterhouse