American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

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

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either