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.

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.