Her protestations were drowned out by the sound of Gordon Honeycomb barfing up aftershock into the kitchenette sink.

St John had always been a fan of the RS Turbo, mainly due to the colour coded rear spoiler and air vents in the bonnet, which distinguished it from the more common and less powerful XR3i.

Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter’s day.

You little prick. It's a whelk...it's a...it's a...dead whelk!

A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.

Your toaster’s a puff.

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.