Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

I wrote my will across the sky, in stars