Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

Information is the religion of the modern world.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!