I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!