The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?

Nature was beautiful in a way he'd never imagined, but this...this was life.

The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.

People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!.

And I can see Russia from my house.