The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
I had lost faith in biography.
Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.