"This is the telephone-answering service," the voice replied, and added.
"I sleep on my back," he replies, and adds: "You know, it's easy to occupy the moral high ground.
"It's the rest that's smoke," he replies, and adds, "I know you better than you think I do".
"One lesson is that we tend to want there to be instant success in the world, and the task in Iraq is going to take a while," he replied, and added, "We'll succeed unless we quit".
"Absolutely," he replied, and added other souvenirs from the-war-that-Britain-never-forgets, including Where Eagles Dare (despite a witty monograph on the film by Geoff Dyer, recently published) and any more books about Churchill (despite one being written by a friend, Geoffrey Wheatcroft).
"I think they will make one," the man replied, and added that the offer had come from Ihor Kononenko, the deputy chairman of the Poroshenko party, who had known Poroshenko since the nineteen-eighties, when they served in the Soviet Army together.
Why on earth did you go?" "Because I wanted to go with Bindi," she replied and added that she "thought that Rolf wouldn't be around too much".
"Sergio," he replied and added that he had only been rapping for a year.
"Blitz," replied Fischer, and added, making several moves in the course of his brief reply, "That's what we all play for fun.
Charles Dickens, Siyu had replied, and then added that she was trying to memorize "Great Expectations".
"Don't be a wuss," he replies and breezily adds, "You can drive it in four-and-a-quarter hours".
