We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?