We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.