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‘True, I am twenty, but I have, since I was sixteen, received about three hundred rejection slips, at least a hundred from The New Yorker, and I'm getting tired of them. How long, O Lord, how long!’

‘This, as ever, leaves the middle class out in the cold, where they stay snug in their Marks and Spencer sweaters and Laura Ashley frocks. They usually remain in work, and are therefore at liberty to indulge in wishful thinking about eternal values and 100% pure natural fibres.’

‘In Poland poetry is a disease, everyone catches it.’

‘But fighter aircraft are a breed apart. Bred for a specific purpose, they are unnatural creatures, like sumo wrestlers or castrati. A fighter plane is a manned missile and its pilot sits astride an engine as a witch sits on a broomstick.’