every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.