But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That's why they become politicians.

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!""Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight.""What?""I set fire to the boat.""But we're on the boat!""I know.

No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.

TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.