I Write Every Day When

There's Always Time For One More Pint. - Chief Inspector Morse

Morse Stared Morosely At The Blotting Paper. "it's Just Not My Sort Of Case, Lewis. I Know It's Not A Very Nice Thing To Say, But I Just Get On Better When We've Got A Body - A Body That Died From Unnatural Causes. That's All I Ask. And We Haven't Got A Body.

There Are Terrible Disasters And Tragedies And Miseries All Over The Place, In Places Like Africa With The Atrocities In Darfur, India Until Recently, And China. So Many Of Them Have Been Brought To Our Notice By Television That We've Almost Become Inured To Cruelty And Disasters And Hopelessness In The World. We Don't Seem To Have Made An Awfully Good Job Of Running Things As A Sort Of Planetary Cabinet.

For Me, It's Always Been The Initial Business - Just Getting A Word Down, Any Words Down, On A Blank Piece Of Paper. Once I've Done That, I'm Away. Beginning Is One Half Of The Deed.

I've Not Much Faith In The Future Of The Planet And I'm Not Just Thinking About Mr. Bush Or Global Warming. I Feel That We've Lost Our Way And It Looks As If, In So Many Fields, Things Are Turning Sour. Even Democracy Is Turning Sour, Isn't It?