Kingsley Amis

- Je ne répondrai à aucune de vos questions, espèce de brigant jaune (...)
- La principale raison de votre présence ici, excrément occidental, n'est pas de répondre à des questions.

"Is he pissed or something? ... He's absolutely stark raving mad. Darling, what happened to him to make him behave like that, do you suppose? Do you think he was brought up in the most weird morbid sort of way by some ghastly old maiden aunt or something, you know with all harmoniums and aspidistras and antimacassars and things?"

"Some configuration of the leaves under the slight breeze formed, as he watched, a shifting face in profile, the eye blinking slowly."

"[The kitchen] door had another little brass knocker on it, this time representing a religious-looking person on a donkey. The room was a long narrow one that ended with a further door and a large, oblong, buff-coloured stove. A medium-sized woman with reddish hair and a purple dress was doing something to the stove but stopped when they came in."