Top Highlights

• ‘It gives him great pleasure, makes Rabbit feel rich, to contemplate the world’s wasting, to know the earth is mortal too.’ Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
• Let the philosophers of science delude themselves to the contrary, physics was free of human taint, it described a world that would still exist if men and women and all their sorrows did not.
• Rather die or spend a life as a morose quadriplegic than be impolite.
• an ageing bourgeois in the grip of stereotypical thinking.
• What was life without the highest ambitions? The answer was exactly this, another night of unmemorable insomnia.