Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

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

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.