I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.Howard Jacobson
You fall in love differently when you are young and far from home in a seductive place. You fall in love with the very air you breathe, and the vivid colours and the unbearably sweet sensation of distance and unaccustomedness.Howard Jacobson
Of the secular mysteries to which I wake with fresh and sometimes angry amazement every day, the queue is the second-most baffling. The first is the fan.Howard Jacobson
No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an artist does. And no traveller ever gets to a more wonderful place.Howard Jacobson
How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty queens - is a question I don't expect ever to be solved.Howard Jacobson
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.Howard Jacobson
'Family Guy'. It's not only the funniest programme on television, it's the most wonderfully, indecorously literate.Howard Jacobson