Logan Pearsall Smith

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.