I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now... →
Roger Bannister
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable... →
William Banting
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in... →
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can... →
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty... →
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never... →
John Banville
Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you... →
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
Life is tragic but it's equally comic.
You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.