Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.