To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

Deep experience is never peaceful.