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

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high.

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds, if I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.