No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.