A Sense Of Humour Is Common Sense

Freedom And Diversity Guard Each Other, And If A Country Could Form The Whole Of One's Character, Napoleon Iii And Victor Hugo Would Have Been The Same Person... If National Identity Means Anything, It Means Something That Comes With You Wherever You Go, And Stays With You No Matter How Long You Stay Away.

Dinner Was Meat - Not Hunks Of Meat, As In Australia, But Pathetic Scraps Of Meat, As In Britain - Which The Girls Upstairs Transformed Into Edible Dishes By Heating It In Secret Ways And Adding Bits Of Stuff To It.

The Inevitable Effect Of A Biographer's Hindsight Is To Belittle The Subject's Foresight.

I Taught Myself Russian, Which Was Very, Very Useful, Especially For Poetry And In Fact If You Can't Read Pushkin In Russian, You're Really Missing Something.

Among Artists Without Talent Marxism Will Always Be Popular, Since It Enables Them To Blame Society For The Fact That Nobody Wants To Hear What They Have To Say.