If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
I'm glad I was never an heiress.
I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.