If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.