The reading of all good books….

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”

At the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee quotes Charles Lamb: “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

What a wonderful word – what does it mean? Inadequate or meagre

History is a set of lies agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte