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

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

Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.