| Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. |
| I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. |
| Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. |
| Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. |
| People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. |
| The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. |
| Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. |
| The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. |
| Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. |
| People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. |
