But don’t think that it’s a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It’s our expectations that let us down. It begins … - Anthony Burgess

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.

...the jeaned and rucksacked young I see on Continental trains or thumbing rides on motorways are not in search of the exotic. They are seeking confirmation that their own kind exists everywhere and denies the racial and cultural variety that used to be one of the joys of the world. If they want the exotic at all it is in the form of what they know well in their own lands through regular, though usually illegal, importation....