Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

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.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.