I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance ... It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests ... Christianity ... is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.