'You'll never be wanted,' [a draft board official] said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, 'I don't much care for the expression 'suffering from.' Shouldn't it be 'glorying in'?'

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose…

When a third wave of poverty overwhelmed me, I knew with even greater certitude than when I lived in Clerkenwell that the only complete solution to my problems…

God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

N.I.G.G.A stands for Never Ignorant about Getting Goals Accomplished or No Ignorance Got Goals Accomplished

The Macedonian language is actually an artifact produced for primarily political reasons.

She is a half-mad old bag lady. The Finchley Whinger.