The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.