History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?