Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator

I'm painfully middle class.

If a ragnarök would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art — and I'd go back to trees..

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.