All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.