Reality Is The Only Obstacle To Happiness.

A Railroad Station? That Was Sort Of A Primitive Airport, Only You Didn't Have To Take A Cab 20 Miles Out Of Town To Reach It.

When It Comes To Cars, Only Two Varieties Of People Are Possible - Cowards And Fools.

Most English Speakers Do Not Have The Writer's Short Fuse About Seeing Or Hearing Their Language Brutalized. This Is The Main Reason, I Suspect, That English Is Becoming The World's Universal Tongue: English-speaking Natives Don't Care How Badly Others Speak English As Long As They Speak It. French, Once Considered Likely To Become The World's Lingua Franca, Has Lost Popularity Because Those Who Are Born Speaking It Reject This Liberal Attitude And Become Depressed, Insulted Or Insufferable When Their Language Is Ill Used.

What The New Yorker Calls Home Would Seem Like A Couple Of Closets To Most Americans, Yet He Manages Not Only To Live There But Also To Grow Trees And Cockroaches Right On The Premises.

Kingsley Amis Was One Of A Trio Of Brilliant Comic Novelists Who Made English Literature Sparkle In The Twentieth Century.