The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing
He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
It's the cynics who never get married.
Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.
The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.
Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.