We Are Monkeys. We Like To Chatter.

History, Contrary To Popular Theories, Is Kings And Dates And Battles.

I Think What Drove Me Away From Being A Reporter Was An Inability To Accept That The World Came In Neat Stories. Every Story You Have To Report Is Just Part Of Something Bigger. The News Isn't What Happened Last Night - It's Some Cumulative Thing That's Happened Over Centuries. I Found It Hard To Think Of One Event And Drag It Out Of A Bubbling Pot And Present It As The Story That Explains It All.

Their Families Cordially Detested One Another.

"out Of Print" Is Bookseller Speak For "we Can't Be Hedgehogged".

It Is Possibly Worth Mentioning At This Point That Mr. Young Thought That Paparazzi Was A Kind Of Italian Linoleum.