Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.