Little Books Are The Things To Write

It Is Only When They Go Wrong That Machines Remind You How Powerful They Are.

The Inevitable Effect Of A Biographer's Hindsight Is To Belittle The Subject's Foresight.

I Work On The Assumption, Or Let It Be The Fear, That The Reader Will Stop Reading If I Stop Being Interesting.

All Intellectual Tendencies Are Corrupted When They Consort With Power.

Spending All My Remaining Money On A Ticket To Florence Was Rendered Needlessly Complicated By The Fact That None Of The Ticket-sellers Had Ever Heard Of The Place. At Last Their Supervisor Showed Up And Set Them Straight By Informing Them That The City They Had Always Referred To As 'firenze' Was In Reality Called Florence.