""But men still shoot each other, don't they?" I asked hopefully."

""I might go for a walk." Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do."

"I caught glimpses of white-clad figures striding purposefully to and fro, heard men's voices calling each other in to…"

"I remember walking to the cricket ground with the team, sometimes trying to feel, and sometimes trying not to feel, t…"

"Die Vergangenheit ist ein fremdes Land; dort gelten andere Regeln."

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there wa…"

"James was twenty- seven and never had a boss again. Until that moment, he and Roland had lived as employees, as if in…"