It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.