for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

All great and precious things are lonely.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere.

Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.