What Are We? Humans? Or Animals? Or

Worse Than Madness. Sanity.

Percival Was Mouse-coloured And Had Not Been Very Attractive Even To His Mother.

Among The Virtues And Vices That Make Up The British Character, We Have One Vice, At Least, That Americans Ought To View With Sympathy. For They Appear To Be The Only People Who Share It With Us. I Mean Our Worship Of The Antique. I Do Not Refer To Beauty Or Even Historical Association. I Refer To Age, To A Quantity Of Years.

And I've Been Wearing Specs Since I Was Three.

I Also Know Patrick White In Australia, Both Personally And As A Writer, And Salman Rushdie In India.