"I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either."

"Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it."

"Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem."

"It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger."

"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else."

"American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957."

"I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year."

"Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of."

"Lawyers are predators in grey worsted."