“We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.”

“You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.”

“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”

“We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.”

“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”

“And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.”

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”