The Things That Really Matter
“Happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail…’
Continue reading “Book Review: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do…”
‘A strange thing happens when you interview a robot…’
“Let us be elegant or die…’
“It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk…”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live…”
Continue reading “Book Review: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”
Michael Palin goes in search of Ernest Hemingway…
‘There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.’
‘You sound like a fridge magnet…’
Continue reading “Book Review: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers”
“You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That’s not my way…”
