Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

[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.

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.