Absolutely, love matters, ” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

Let us eat and drink: for tomorrow we diet.

Never complain and never explain.

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.