Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.