All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.... - Robertson Davies

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

He was born into, and seems never to have questioned, that English "class system" which has been so much abused in the present century. Indeed, several governments have announced their intention of abolishing it, and the most recent prime minister to retire showed her egalitarian principles by accepting the title of Baroness Thatcher.

God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!