Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.