Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

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!

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.