Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Children always turn to the light.