If I Am Doing Nothing, I Like

The Best Moments In Reading Are When You Come Across Something - A Thought, A Feeling, A Way Of Looking At Things - Which You Had Thought Special And Particular To You. And Now, Here It Is, Set Down By Someone Else, A Person You Have Never Met, Someone Even Who Is Long Dead. And It Is As If A Hand Has Come Out, And Taken Yours

I've Never Forgotten That Experience. But I Had Nobody At School That Was Either Like Hector Or Irwin. The Masters Had No Idea What Was Expected Of You In The Scholarship Exam, So You Just Had To Busk It Really.

Were We Closer To The Ground As Children, Or Is The Grass Emptier Now?

Cloisters, Ancient Libraries ... I Was Confusing Learning With The Smell Of Cold Stone.

Standards Are Always Out Of Date. That's What Makes Them Standards.