‘An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.’
Quentin Crisp – The Naked Civil Servant

‘An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.’
Quentin Crisp – The Naked Civil Servant

‘Every walk can be expressed as a story narrated by the walker.’
– The Art of Wandering – The Writer As Walker – Merlin Coverley
‘ I had a sense even at that age, of how the majority can submit to the bullying of a few determined individuals, and how a single man can restore to others a sense of the dignity of individuals and the power of a community.’
‘The Rat Race’ means a race where, no matter how fast you run, you don’t get anywhere. I felt bad about the title because, I thought, it wasn’t a rat race at all, it was a People Race, and no sensible rats would ever do anything so foolish,’
‘God’s children are not for sale.’
‘The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.’
‘You can’t just come to a stop because bad things happen.’
‘Starting implies a beginning.’
‘Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.’