The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

There is always time for failure

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

Hell must be a place where you are only allowed to read what you agree with.

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

Dharma is found because one cannot create what is already there.

I don't miss you, I miss who I thought you were.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

I always say that environment always affects the food.

Pass the bone, kid pass the bone, Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones

We all grow on somebody's grave.

I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.