Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.