Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.