Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Love not often, but forever.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.