Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madames, greeting the punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs and then pimping their books.

What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children an…

People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.

Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would …

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

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