It cannot be right that someone who joins a train at 0800, having paid perhaps £200 for a single at the ticket office and who sits in an unreserved seat, can be removed from that seat at 1200 by someone who joins en route with a cheap Advance fare that he didn't even buy until 1100, and yet which came with a compulsory reservation. That turns our first passenger's seat from unreserved to reserved midway through the journey and is, to me, commercially immoral.

He’d probably blow his brains out a week after the fact, but that might be a little late for the rest of us.

It is of importance to carry with us this idea of the normalism of the successive phases,—because accidental modifications frequently occur which may distract attention from the main lines of the case, and seduce us into a search for remedies where they cannot be found.

[…] that sex has no consequences, that what I do with my body is none of your business, that the goodness of sex is evaluated by the mind-blowingness of the orgasm.