I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.