The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: "There is life, but it's not for you."

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.