PC is low, low church — it is the lowest common denomination. - Martin Amis

If you can fight, you don’t have to fight. And you don’t have to cower. And girls like that, whatever they say.

The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed to be entirely peopled by blocked dramatists, likeably shambling poets, and one-off novelists. The whole place felt like a clubworld sunset home for literary talent.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.