He had never read Proust, but he had somehow taken a short cut across the allotments and arrived at the same conclusions.

It wasn't until some time later that I realized that, without it being one of the most momentous encounters in western literature, my mother had met T. S. Elio…

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail, listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably co…

Franklin: Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery with Violence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-…

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love;

If you gotta ask, you'll never know.

Genius sees the answer before the question.