History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust.