About Tom Sharpe: Thomas Ridley Sharpe was an English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, which were both adapted for television.
Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.
If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.
