What's it going to be then, eh?

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

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

I was cured all right.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.