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?

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

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

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.