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.

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

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

On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

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

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