Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.