Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.