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

'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

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