A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.