A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

There are schools that have rules against afro puffs. They say it's distracting. But nobody is saying that about a little girl who has ponytails.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their history lessons.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

This is the trouble with cheating: there are no acceptable rules, or laws. It could be a smile, or dancing to a song that you considered to be indefinably 'ours'. It can feel like cheating to go to a restaurant that you used to go to with someone else. Keeping photographs of exes can infuriate, like retrospective cheating.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Learning Jimmy Carr riffs off by heart is not the way to anyone's heart, unless you're Jimmy Carr. And remember, the two most attractive things in a man is a sense of danger and being able to make a girl feel really safe.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Cowboy boots you can't wear unless you actually are a cowboy or in a Status Quo tribute band, or over 60; there's something about a retiring gent in cowboy boots that looks sort of presidential.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

You see, the problem with Dave Cameron is that people know who he is. The less people know about him, the more he's likely to get re-elected.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

The suit is the polite taming, the socialising, the neutering, of riding and military kit. Those pointless buttons on the cuff were moved from lateral to vertical.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.