Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.