We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan BennettCloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
Alan BennettChildren always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
Alan BennettWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
Alan Bennett