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. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable,… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
