Any one 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, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.

I am not I: thou art not he or she: they are not they.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Revision is just as important as any other part of writing and must be done con amore .