They said it was the only way to stop her running up debts, but the best way to stop her running up debts was to give her more money. - Edward St Aubyn

No man is an island — although one’s known a surprising number who own one.

Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?

The passage he was to read was from Revelations — or Obfuscations, as he preferred to call them. Reading it over on the train from Cambridge, he had felt a strange desire to build a time machine so that he could take the author a copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.