Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

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

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

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.

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

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.