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

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

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