Quotes

A man could go on turning out fatuous tripe until the cows come home without necessarily knowing it.

Every so often there's a generation likes us: our only "raison d'être" to be blown to pieces in a war we imagine we believe in ideologically.

It is said that every seven years of your life you undergo a change which reflects itself in your attitude to your circumstances and to other people, and I think this may be true. If it is, then the change begins towards the end of a seven-year span, at the point, perhaps, where dissatisfaction with what you are doing and with where you are going sets in.

That was the trouble with your generation of so-called intellectual young men. All of you unmitigated, bloody bores with sloppy ideas and no remotest idea how to come to terms with life. When you found life coming to terms with you, you all wondered what the hell had hit you.