One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

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!

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.

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 forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.