I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

People don't help much.

We're not savages. We're English.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.