I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.