The past is never where you think you left it.

words can never get at the truth.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.