I don't give a crap if you're a Tangent or a really smart llama. You're my friend and that's all that matters

The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.

(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.