Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.