The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

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

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

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

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.

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.