I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.