We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.

I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!