[Rummyfan]

He wasn’t amiable enough to be an amiable dunce but he was the most useful of the useful idiots.

Another great Steyn! And I know that's redundant. Production of his plays will dwindle with time. Over-rated doesn't begin to say it!

[George Smiley]

Stein is a master of the "bitch-slap bon mot".

And that one is priceless.