In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.