The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.