What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.