“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

“Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasi...”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.”