Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.

Books dont need batteries

Communists are the last optimists.