Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.