The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk. It climbed out, and quickly slithered up and up along the finest thread-away from trouble,...

Don’t forget that we lawyers, we’re a higher breed of intellect, and so it’s our privilege to lie. It’s as clear as day. Animals can’t even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among...

Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed – to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn’t much food. They ate with care...

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .’He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting from foot to foot, his waterproof trousers rattling like the bulls’ bladders that...

Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn’t know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so...

The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. (“The North”)

Cruel’, O’Kelly laughed, ‘it’s cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God’s mercy, then it’s his gift of making us unable to lie.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.