To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.