As the saying goes: God made man and woman

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink's shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets