Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Observer review of Houellebecq's HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life + Extract

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, g…