Peter Barkworth: Anderson

Quotes 

• Anderson : I wouldn't be nervous about flying if the wings didn't wag. Solid steel. Thick as a bank safe. Flexing like tree branches. It's not natural.

• Anderson : Now a philosopher exploring the difficult terrain of right and wrong should not be over-impressed by the argument 'a child would know the difference'. But when, let us say, we are being persuaded that it is ethical to put someone in prison for reading or writing the wrong books, it is well to be reminded that you can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

• Anderson : [on learning that McKendrick lectures at Stoke University]  An excellent university, I believe.

  McKendrick : [sarcastically]  You know perfectly well you wouldn't be seen dead in it.

  Anderson : Even if that were true, my being seen dead in a place has never, so far as I know, been thought a condition of its excellence.