Atheism is too theological.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.