What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.

For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out and there is total blackness. And ifsome part of the non—entity we called George has indeed been absent at this moment of terminal shock, away out there on the deep water, then it will return to find itself homeless.

We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.