Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.