Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.