When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

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.

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