Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

- Frederic Raphael

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

- Frederic Raphael

I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

- Frederic Raphael

During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost…

- Frederic Raphael

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

- Frederic Raphael

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

- Frederic Raphael

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

- Frederic Raphael

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

- Frederic Raphael

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both …

- Frederic Raphael