I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
From A. N. Wilson
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
I had lost faith in biography.
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
I don't write books inadvertently.
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