“And as far as Piscary is concerned, he can burn in hell—if his soul hadn’t already evaporated.”

“I’m just saying that his card-burning would have meant far more, on the day he did it, if he hadn’t already incinerated his life.”

“Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.”

“It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.”

“The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.”

“No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.”