Publishers Don't Nurse You; They Buy And

I Am Fifty Years Old And I Have Never Known What It Is To Love. I Can Write Those Words, Know Them To Be True, But Feel Only The Regret That A Tone-deaf Man Must Feel Because He Can't Appreicate Music, A Regret Less Keen Because It Is For Something Never Known, Not For Something Lost.

You Never Forget The People Who Were Kind To You In Childhood, Do You, Sir?

A Politician Is Required To Listen To Humbug, Talk Humbug, Condone Humbug. The Most We Can Hope For Is That We Don't Actually Believe It.

Any Visitor To An Historic Country Town Or City Quickly Becomes Aware In His Or Her Peregrinations That The Most Attractive Houses In The Centre Are Invariably The Offices Of Lawyers.

Authors Always Take Rejection Badly. They Equate It With Infanticide.