– interview with the Guardian in 2011 All the stories I would like to write persecute me when I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, the little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful'.
"Welcome to the new Kenya, sir," wrote Lucy Oriang, a columnist for The Daily Nation, Kenya's main newspaper.
"Dear Sir," wrote Cecil Rhodes, the British diamond magnate and founder of Rhodesia, in his graceful script.
"I tell you this sir," wrote Mr. Marino, who is serving three life sentences for other convictions, "I did this awful crime and I was alone".
'Yes, sir,' 'No, sir,' writes me a ticket.' Thank you, sir,' and that's it.
Brewster politely addressed the short letter to an unknown "Sir," writing: "Everyone seems to agree upon the necessity of putting a stop to Suffragist outrages; but no one seems certain how to do so".
SIR —You write: "[T]ry doing multiplication with Roman numerals".
SIR — You write: "During [Auschwitz's] existence, these [prisoners] were a part of the Soviet Union".
SIR —You write: "Partly at his [Mr Jobs's] urging, EMI, a British label, has now begun selling songs on iTunes without copyright protection".
Others, like Sir Mix-a-Lot, write songs hoping they'll become much more.
"He should be ashamed," Sir Peter wrote.
