The Dividing Line Between Wish And Need

One Of The Admirable Features Of British Novelists Is That They Have No Scruple About Setting Their Stories In Foreign Settings With Wholly Foreign Personnel.

To Make A Love Story, You Need A Couple Of Young People, But To Reflect On The Nature Of Love, You're Better Off With Old Ones. That Is A Fact Of Life And Literature - And Of The Novel Ever Since It Fell In Love With Love In The 18th Century.

The World Survived The Fall Of The Roman Empire And Will No Doubt Outlast Our Own So Much More Splendid Civilisation.

Life Without Oil, In Fact, Would Be So Different That It Is Frightening To Contemplate. We Are Addicted, And It Is No Comfortable Addiction.

Economists, Like Royal Children, Are Not Punished For Their Errors.