Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

True allegiance is only given willingly.

There's this huge number of desperate people.