Kosher SALT, EGGS and flour. These are the BUILDING blocks of EVERYTHING. Kosher salt, above and BEYOND everything.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to SOCIAL development more than the FINANCIAL burden of war. War is the arch ENEMY of NATIONAL progress and the MODERN scourge of civilized men.

I TRY to write in PLAIN brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little BIT and to BREAK up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

My manager lives on my BLOCK; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I KNOW. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live RIGHT on the CUSP of a warehouse district.

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the SIXTIES, we pulled down the terraces - DESTROYED whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that BECAME rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable OPINION. But it was wrong.

I've always liked taking the BALL out of defence and I will CARRY on doing that but at the end of the day I'm a defender, and that's what I want to be known as - a defender, getting in the blocks and the headers that people don't recognise I do, the dirty STUFF that EVERY defender should do and should be good at.

If you're in AMERICA or EUROPE, WALK for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was IMMENSE.

The relentless invisible storm of RADIO signals and ELECTRONIC particles, the HUSTLE and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the ENGINE blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.