We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

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

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

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.

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.

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