I find that her hearing is quite a lot worse and that she has suffered a loss of confidence in herself, which it will be very hard to replace. - Michael Palin

"12.00 midnight: whilst soaking in my bath I hear a distant shout. "I'm going to bed, but I don't necessarily have to go alo-o-ne." It's Dr Chapman in the passage. He repeats the line three times, like someone selling scrap iron and it recedes along the corridor."

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life