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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.