‘In the trendy liberal’s bumper book of stereotypes, the term middle class does not describe who we are: industrious, law-abiding and tax-paying’

‘These two Titians are the greatest old masters left in private hands anywhere’

‘“Mr Heren,” the White House guard told my father, “you just drive right up to the house”’

There is almost no end to the myriad pettifogging ways in which we’ve contrived to make the whole driving experience as miserable as possible