Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.