The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.