I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep you company, be your friend, and never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against 'em.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.