Most battles are won before they are ever fought.
I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order
I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.
I get airsick just licking an airmail stamp.
We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.
Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.