Julie BurchillThinkers

American football is a sport with a great future behind it.

Barbara Cartland is Baby Jane crossed with Liberace.

Beauty is less of a passport than it is a visa, and it runs out fast.

Camille Paglia is a name where the "g" is silent -- the only thing about her that is.

A Celebrity is made not by that 'indefinable something extra' but that 'indefinable something missing.'

Chic is beauty with all the sex, sweat and seed sucked out, the dry husk of lust.

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

The Family meal is often little more than domestic abuse with a cherry on top.

Marriage is very different for the cynic and the romantic. For a cynic, it is the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. For the romantic, it is the beginning.

The Middle class is the rancid scraps in the middle of the luscious, bad-for-you bread of British life.