I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible.