It gets you away from everything. Once you start doing a piece, you get into it and you become a part of it. It's a great release.

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.