I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.

"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.