Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.