“Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.”

“It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on making a nuisance of ourselves. Our job is to keep both the simple Philistine and the greedy rich in their places, to prevent them, in their stupidity and avarice, from destroying everything that is left.”

“Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.”

“At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life in this way.When we come to the bell tower, I ask her to climb up the ladder in front of me.It was rather a caddish request, I suppose, but I had often wondered. Black petticoats and pink knickers. To think I had to come all this way to find out.”

“...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.”

“My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight and narrow...”

“The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong”