'I couldn't understand why God had made the world at all...' I asked my bishop; he didn't know. He said that… — Evelyn Waugh

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.