The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.