We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.