Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.