War is a perversion of sex.

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.