Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key."

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

"We started trying to set up a small anarchist community, but the people wouldn't obey the rules."

"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."

"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."