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.'"

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

"I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar."

"'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'"

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