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Sunday, November 30, 2003

�I felt for a moment that the whole Wilcox family was a fraud, just a wall of newspapers and motor-cars and golf-clubs, and that if it fell I should find nothing behind it but panic and emptiness.�
- E. M. Forster (1879 � 1970), English writer, essayist and literary critic: �Howard�s End�, 1910.

�Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life and I don�t blame Elvis for eating it every night for the last year of his life.�
- Lindsey Bareham (b. 1948), English food critic and writer: �In Praise of the Potato�, 1989.

�A God who allowed us to prove his existence would be an idol.�
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 � 1945), German theologian: �If you believe it, you have it�, 1931.

�Stop wishing to merit anyone�s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.�
- Catullus (84 � c.54 BC), Roman poet: �Carmina�

�People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.�
- Peter Sellers (1925 � 1980), English actor and comedian: In Halliwell, �The Filmgoer�s and Video Viewer�s Companion�.


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