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1 " I can't think, if people want gods, why not the Greek ones; they were so useful in emergencies, and such enterprising and entertaining companions. Capricious, of course, but helpful, unless one offended them. I don't know why paganism has so quite gone out in England. "
― Rose Macaulay , The World My Wilderness
2 " So men's will to recovery strove against the drifting wilderness to halt and tame it; but the wilderness might slip from their hands "
3 " Let's see, what are those four footling freedoms we used to hear about - freedom to eat, freedom to speak, freedom to get about - what's the other? Freedom from fear, that's it. Well, who's going to have freedom from fear with those bleeding M.P.'s snooping round after him? "