It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

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.

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.