We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.
A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.
Moralists have no place in an art gallery.
This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.