This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.