“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

“And yet, even though we know wars have been fought over Love, even though we know it is that powerful a force, when we finally experience it, our minds explode and we’re incapable of explaining it.”

“War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.”

“War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into a balanced equation”

“Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.”