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.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

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

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

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

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.