Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.' 'Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others. 'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.