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.

Every decoding is another encoding.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

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!

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex

Information is the religion of the modern world.