Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.