Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?