We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

I had lost faith in biography.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

A busybody's work is never done.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.