The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

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

Cats are only human, they have their faults.

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

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.