Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

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.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

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

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.