I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

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.'

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

We're not savages. We're English.