Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?

The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

I never miss England.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.