Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

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

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.