Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.