Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.