What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.