It was Julie Burchill who decreed that beyond a certain age a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
Travel books are by and large boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact...
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own...
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining...
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers and I've often found myself...
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't...
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed....
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes which do not...
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous because it lets you...
Reading the play at home however fulfilling can never be the vivacious...
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.