Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.