"Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun."

"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had mad…"

"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unr…"

"He replaced his glasses, which were now smeared with mucus, and manfully assumed what he liked to think was the cauti…"

"The highest moral character can procure one no preference among the shades."

"In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into …"

"Rose girl, bearing your posies, What are you coming to sell? Is it yourself or your roses, Or yourself and your roses…"

"Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948."

"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another."

"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."