Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.