Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Cats are only human, they have their faults.