What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?