The Modern Holy Trinity Is Money, Sex

If All Power Corrupts, Then A Doctor, Who Literally Holds Life And Death In His Hands, Must Be At Particular Risk.

A Nation That Can't Remember Its Dead Will Soon Cease To Be Worth Dying For.

I Still Occasionally Need To Struggle But I Now Fear It Less. The Weapons I Fight It With Are Also My Consolations: Books, Music, Food, Wine, Nature.

I Find It Extraordinary That A Straightforward If Inelegant Device For Ensuring The Survival Of The Species Should Involve Human Beings In Such Emotional Turmoil. Does Sex Have To Be Taken So Seriously?

Great Literature Cannot Grow From A Neglected Or Impoverished Soil. Only If We Actually Tend Or Care Will It Transpire That Every Hundred Years Or So We Might Get A Middlemarch.