That's how Dickens wanted to get his image across, the reader is simply bludgeoned into submission. - Mark Forsyth

The achievements of antiquity are quite enough to cow the modern human, but when you realise that they did it all without caffeine it becomes almost unbearable.

Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of a doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But not a genius. No angels handed him his lines, no fairies proofread for him. Instead, he learnt techniques, he learnt tricks, and he learnt them well. Genius,

To remember that I used to like avocados with a touch of walnut oil only adds to my shame.