They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.