Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

You should have died when I killed you.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

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