Only a madman would claim that there is some thing unreal about reality. - Brian Aldiss

When he woke, she was gone. He lay for a long while looking up at the tent roof, wondering how much he cared. He needed company, although he was never wholly comfortable with it; he needed a woman, although he was never wholly happy with one. He wanted to talk, although he knew most talk was an admission of non-communication.

Poverty is the natural state for humanity. Wealth starts in the stomach and corrupts it.…

The intelligent have been overwhelmed by the dull. Is that not an invasion?" "More, I would say, of a self-betrayal.