Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.