Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.

Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.