To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.