The Inevitable Effect Of A Biographer's Hindsight

As Far As Talent Goes, Marilyn Monroe Was So Minimally Gifted As To Be Almost Unemployable, And Anyone Who Holds To The Opinion That She Was A Great Natural Comic Identifies Himself Immediately As A Dunce.

Humphrey Searle Writes Music That Sounds Like The Theme From 'star Wars' Played Backwards Through A Washing Machine.

When I Finally Embraced Abstinence It Was Because Of The Simple Urge To Work A Longer Day. Thus, Without Joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I Was At Last Able To Leave Piss-artists Notorious.

Young Men Especially - I Don't Know If Young Women Feel Much The Same - But Young Men Think They Are Immortal, Automatically. They Have No Idea Of Time Because They Have So Much Energy And I Was Like That.

Dinner Was Meat - Not Hunks Of Meat, As In Australia, But Pathetic Scraps Of Meat, As In Britain - Which The Girls Upstairs Transformed Into Edible Dishes By Heating It In Secret Ways And Adding Bits Of Stuff To It.