It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.