You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.

I tell, therefore you are.