... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.