"Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information. - Commencement address at University of Iowa."

"When I hear the word "stream" uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the …"

"When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pu…"

"Roger: This place called Common Grounds that used to be called the Covered Dish. We’ve been playing there o…"

"The back streets of Fulham, Yorkshiremen in pub gardens, a laboratory rabbit, office friendships, a cutting…"

"The Duke, always right in his purpose but generally wrong in his practice, had stayed at home working all t…"

"We can allow for Slow Medicine beds in our hospitals so that doctors have enough time to find out what is r…"