A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are lo…

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and inte…