The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.