Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.