Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.