Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.