I will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure. - E. M. Forster

They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of the Machine, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain numerals out of it, however little meaning those numerals conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching a button, however unimportant, or of ringing an electric bell, however superfluously.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.