My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.