I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.