Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.