There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.