Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
“You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more can’t possibly hurt you, because you know you can pull up whenever you feel like it, but it is merely wishful thinking. The craving has gripped you and there is no resisting it.
You have passed the point of no return.”
P.G. Wodehouse
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
the Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
in Act II of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn’t matter if you drop a stitch.
Rupert Hart-Davis, letter to George Lyttelton