The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
invaders always destroy libraries.
All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.
The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.
As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.