They were both sweating freely. - Brian Aldiss

It’s a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn’t; it’s something that goes on inside us.

The ability to change should not be despised.

The Badlands were extensive. Ancient bomb craters and soil erosion joined hands here; man’s talent for war, coupled with his inability to manage forested land, had produced thousands of square miles of temperate purgatory, where nothing moved but dust.