Death Has This Much To Be Said

He Was Of The Faith Chiefly In The Sense That The Church He Currently Did Not Attend Was Catholic.

The World That Seemed So Various And New, Well, It Does Contract. One's Burning Desire To Investigate Human Behavior, And To Make, Or Imply, Statements About It, Does Fall Off. And So One Does Find That Early Works Are Full Of Energy And Also Full Of Vulgarity, Crudity, And Incompetence, And Later Works Are More Carefully Finished, And In That Sense Better Literary Products. But . . . There's Often A Freshness That Is Missing In Later Works--for Every Gain There's A Loss. I Think It Evens Out In That Way.

Growing Older, I Have Lost The Need To Be Political, Which Means ... The Need To Be Left. I Am Driven To Grudging Toleration Of The Conservative Party Because It Is The Party Of Non-politics, Of Resistance To Politics.

A German Wine Label Is One Of The Things Life's Too Short For.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'you Atheist?' "kingsley Amis: 'well, Yes, But It's More That I Hate Him.