There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to liv…

Popular success is a palace built for a writer by publishers, journalists, admirers and professional reputation makers, in which a silent army of termites, rat…

The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, …