Satire to be good must be unfair and single-minded. To be backed by intense anger is good — though absolutely not necessary. - Wyndham Lewis

Morality is of the surface. But also the values that decide whether a person is ridiculous or free from absurdity are pure conventions of a society, they exist only in a surface-world, of two dimensions.

The als ob doctrine of a sportsmanlike average, that is the perfect democrat. […] If you do not acquire this simple democratic habit of make-believe, there is no place for you in contemporary life.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.