[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.

The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues