I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.