What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.