England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal

This story inspires me to contribute with something unique and exciting for my time.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high... Hooray for you.

Ideas need collective thought.

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.