I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it

Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.