"Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous n…"

"Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its pit."

"Do not say: How is it that former times were better than these? For it is not out of wisdom that you ask about this."

"But I’ve also observed a tendency, over my years as an SF reader, for SF writers of a certain age to give the After U…"

"Hopes can be disappointed. Nostalgia is irrefutable."

"Compared with that, Angie thinks, what is there for us in the present? “Nostalgia,” we are apt to label this phenomen…"

"Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb…"

"Nostalgia, as his Uncle Joshua had said, ain't what it used to be."

"‘What happened when alternative music came out was authentic. It was a reflection of what was happening at the time a…"

"Life is mainly grief and labour. Two things get you through. Chortling when it hits your neighbour, Whingeing when it…"