If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man's fall, and that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up trouser legs.

("The Return Of Imray")

Never wound a snake; kill it.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing.