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 looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

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, …

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.