Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

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.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.