Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.