A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some…

The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea : the Dickensian nigh…