A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.