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

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.