When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.