He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.

When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Is that how you’re supposed to find your soulmate and fall in love these days? By flirting in 140 character tweets and stalking each other’s social media pages?

Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

Love abounds in all things, excels from the depths to beyond the stars, is lovingly disposed to all things. She has given the king on high the kiss of peace.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

First and foremost, I'm a running back. That's how I perceive myself.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.