Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.