But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.