It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

I never stopped reading.