We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.