Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.