I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
“Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.”
“Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.”