A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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

Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.