Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.