There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

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.

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.

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

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise