Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.

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

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

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