Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

Literature is analysis after the event.