There's Always Time For One More Pint.

We Read So Much About Incompetence And Corruption In All Sorts Of Places. I'm Not Just Thinking Of The United Kingdom And The United States. Almost Everywhere There Seems To Me To Be An Increase In Incompetence And General Dishonesty. This Is What I Mean About Democracy - You Feel That You've Got The Ability To Arrange Things And Influence Matters And It's Not Quite So Easy As That, I'm Afraid.

Morse Stared Morosely At The Blotting Paper. "it's Just Not My Sort Of Case, Lewis. I Know It's Not A Very Nice Thing To Say, But I Just Get On Better When We've Got A Body - A Body That Died From Unnatural Causes. That's All I Ask. And We Haven't Got A Body.

I Write Every Day When I'm At Home - Trying To Catch Up With Correspondence.

I Always Drink At Lunchtime. It Helps My Imagination.

I've Not Much Faith In The Future Of The Planet And I'm Not Just Thinking About Mr. Bush Or Global Warming. I Feel That We've Lost Our Way And It Looks As If, In So Many Fields, Things Are Turning Sour. Even Democracy Is Turning Sour, Isn't It?