One recalls John Updike’s argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so. - Martin Amis

I want to convey a mood, and what you are reading is a constituent of how you feel. In biographies they should always tell us that, routinely, in the margin: what they were reading.

Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich...Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich...The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.