As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right.

These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

Inspiration comes from doing.

The one is none other than the All, the All none other than the One.