The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

And that, said John, is that.