I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

We can't tell our life from our wish

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.