Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.