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

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

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

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Example is better than precept.

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.