You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

I think of the author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story' and then he passes the hat.

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.