One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.