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. *

The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

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

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.