"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."

"What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: 'Why is it so dark in here?'"

"This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic."

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."

"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions."

"If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows."

"The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."

"Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope."

"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't."

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses."

"Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."