Experts Say Men Think Of

Writers Quite Often Starve. And I'm Mainly Just Writing Critical Prose And Poetry, That's A Formula For Starvation.

The Inevitable Effect Of A Biographer's Hindsight Is To Belittle The Subject's Foresight.

Freedom And Diversity Guard Each Other, And If A Country Could Form The Whole Of One's Character, Napoleon Iii And Victor Hugo Would Have Been The Same Person... If National Identity Means Anything, It Means Something That Comes With You Wherever You Go, And Stays With You No Matter How Long You Stay Away.

Philosophers Are Divided On The Question Of Whether The Narrative Therein Unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] Is Grippingly Boring Or Boringly Gripping.

When I Was Young I Never Believed That Australia Was Anything Else Except Blessed. I Thought It Was A Little Dull When I Was Young, But That Was 'cause I Was A Snob.