Best known for his stories about the disheveled barrister Horace Rumpole, John Mortimer is also an accomplished memoirist, screenwriter, librettist, playwright, and former barrister. Now, at the age of eighty-one, he wonders what he should pass on to the next generation. Here Mortimer ponders this question and writes about the (nonmaterial) things he believes enrich our experience of life.