Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.