A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
-- John le Carre AA

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
-- P. D. James AA

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
-- W. S. Gilbert AA

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
-- Vincent Canby AA