"Well," said Dr Jochum, "you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself." - Malcolm Bradbury

Jochum had said, "You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?' But it can't answer."

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.

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 intelligent to want to.