Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

You'll get back to where you came from.