He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal.

Paddy and I had scarcely a wink of sleep, for there was a man near us who had some nervous trouble, shell-shock perhaps, which made him cry out 'Pip!' at irreg…

Being a beggar, he said, was not his fault, and he refused either to have any compunction about it or to let it trouble him. He was the enemy of society, and q…

How sweet the air does smell - even the air of a back-street in the suburbs - after the shut-in, subfaecal stench of the spike!

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone.