"I suppose -- in the last resort -- you trust life -- or you don't. Well -- I don't. There's something malicious . . .…"

"I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to th…"

"Remember what we once were and what we thought we'd be. And now this. And it's all we have, Allan, it's us. Every ste…"

"But the point is, now, at this moment, or at any moment, we're only a cross-section of our real selves. What we reall…"

"Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but…"

"It's silly for young men to announce themselves as new types of humanity. . .and then give you nothing but stale comm…"

"I wished I had been born early enough to have been called a Little Englander. It was a term of sneering abuse, but I …"

"It should be realised that men will take enormous risks rather than be bored. War has been used before now to prevent…"

"Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on t…"

"Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine ab…"