A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

can only write about what bites you.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.