... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.

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.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.