Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; Girls aren't like that. - Kingsley Amis

[W]e're all trapped in a sort of conspiracy to pretend everybody's forgiven everybody else and nobody minds anything any more and we all know life's not like that but what can we do?

You can't screw the rich, something in Ronnie muttered as Miss Quick got off him with quite as much alacrity as she had got on him. You have to let them screw you. Or else you leave out screwing altogether.

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the War, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.