We Are Not By Nature Cruel.

In Its Conception The Literature Prize Belongs To Days When A Writer Could Still Be Thought Of As, By Virtue Of His Or Her Occupation, A Sage, Someone With No Institutional Affiliations Who Could Offer An Authoritative Word On Our Times As Well As On Our Moral Life.

In Order To Be Cruel We Have To Close Our Hearts To The Suffering Of The Other.

And Anyway, I Suspect He Secretly Liked It When A Woman Was Cold And Distant

It’s Admirable, What You Do, What She Does, But To Me Animal-welfare People Are A Bit Like Christians Of A Certain Kind. Everyone Is So Cheerful And Well-intentioned That After A While You Itch To Go Off And Do Some Raping And Pillaging. Or To Kick A Cat.

It Is A World Of Words That Creates A World Of Things.