A Sense Of Humour Is Common Sense

If An Artist Is Any Good At All, Then He Or She Will Have A Later Phase That's More Interesting Than The Early One.

If We Want A Book To Do More Than What It Does, That's A Condemnation. If We Want It To Do More Of What It Does, That's An Endorsement.

How Much Atonement Is Enough? The Bombing Must Be Allowed As At Least Part-payment: Those Of Our Young People Who Are Concerned About The Moral Problem Posed By The Allied Air Offensive Should At Least Consider The Moral Problem That Would Have Been Posed If The German Civilian Population Had Not Suffered At All.

Dinner Was Meat - Not Hunks Of Meat, As In Australia, But Pathetic Scraps Of Meat, As In Britain - Which The Girls Upstairs Transformed Into Edible Dishes By Heating It In Secret Ways And Adding Bits Of Stuff To It.

It Is A Good Rule In Life To Be Wary Of The Company Of People Who Think Of Themselves In The Third Person, No Matter How Well Justified They Might Seem To Be In Doing So.