By shooting your cook you were refusing him permission to enter your house. - Tom Sharpe

Certainty was essential to him and the written word had a certainty about it that everything else in life lacked.

The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "" to Motor Mechanics.

'Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.'