“We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.”

John Wyndham

“The world has so multiplied the causes of fear that no one is left entirely unafraid.”

John Wyndham

“Poor baby, what a world to come into.”

John Wyndham

“One hears of the Industrial Revolution as though it were a mere phase, finished and done with. It is not, and it shows no sign of ever being completed.”

John Wyndham

“She had an exasperating feeling that there was a principle somewhere that she had missed; a principle which once grasped would make the whole thing as clear as daylight. But if there was it continued ...”

John Wyndham