Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

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

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Life is, of course, terrible.