Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.
You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.
People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter things, but they're realistic figures. They're perfectly recognisable.