C. Northcote Parkinson

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.