That's the thing that always gets me. We have to have football, because you reach young guys who drink beer.

I suppose it's because beer is connected to football broadcasts and the rest of it. Beer . . . accompanies male activities.

This idea of no beer is just not very good. Please reconsider.

The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.