Quotes from Frederic Raphael

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

How is your writing going, Michael?" "Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.

I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.