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

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

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.

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.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.