When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.