There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.