J.B. PriestleyThinkers

The City is a stone forest.

Comedy is society protecting itself with a smile.

Communication is hindered by communication technologies — The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Compassion is the albatross of the liberal.

Liberal's albatross is compassion.

London is merely a dream, a phantasmagoria, a changing pattern of sight and sound, with Iittle bits of reality here and there, like currants in a vague and enormous pudding.

Snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

The Teenager is always the fault of the generation before them — like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.