James Houston Quotations

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.

Through practice you'll learn to identify the wrong 'un which should be heaved back over his syrup. You'll be singing happy little songs about the whereabouts of his missus in no time.

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.