All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.