No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
Something you have to make...It's all work, work.
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.
A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.