Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

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

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

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

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

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.