Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Lists are a form of power.

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.