Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.