There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.