Malcolm Bradbury

"In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off."

"Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe."

"It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity."

"'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'"

"Jochum had said, "You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?' But it can't answer."

"'Look, Felicity,' says Howard, 'there's only one rule. Follow the line of your own desires.'"

"The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to."

"'The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.'"