We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.