Nature Played A Cruel Trick On Her

If You Find Yourself Born In Barnsley And Then Set Your Sights On Being Virginia Woolf It Is Not Going To Be Roses All The Way.

Why Do We Not Care To Acknowledge Them? The Cattle, The Body Count. We Still Don't Like To Admit The War Was Even Partly Our Fault Because So Many Of Our People Died. A Photograph On Every Mantlepiece. And All This Mourning Has Veiled The Truth. It's Not So Much Lest We Forget, As Lest We Remember. Because You Should Realise The Cenotaph And The Last Post And All That Stuff Is Concerned, There's No Better Way Of Forgetting Something Than By Commemorating It.

Books Are Not About Passing The Time. They're About Other Lives. Other Worlds.

Children Always Assume The Sexual Lives Of Their Parents Come To A Grinding Halt At Their Conception.

Polly: Education With Socialists, It's Like Sex, All Right As Long As You Don't Have To Pay For It.