I don’t spend all day reading the newspapers. It can get hold of you as poisonously as the television, if you once let it. - Robert Aickman

It was, in any case, quite useless, and, like most useless things, useless almost immediately.

The idea came to him, not for the first time, that most of the things which people buy in the belief that they are luxuries are really poor substitutes for luxury.

'I didn't find it in the least difficult,' said Grigg. 'Those meant to succeed at a thing never do find the thing difficult.' 'Meant? Meant by whom?' 'By the life of which they are a part, whether they know it or not.' 'It is very mystical,' said Grigg.