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.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

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.

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.

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