Aphorisms Are Bad For Novels. They Stick

I Remember A Table In Barchestertowers That Had More Character Than The Combined Heroes Of Three Recent Novels I've Read.

A Bookcase Is As Good As A View, As Much Of A Panorama As The Sight Of A City Or A River. There Are Dawns And Sunsets In Books - Storms And Zephyrs.

Aphorisms Are Bad For Novels. They Stick In The Reader's Teeth.

There Are Few Things More Subtly Distressing Than An Inappropriate Gift From Someone Close To You.

We Are All Tourists In History, And Irony Is What We Win In Wars.