I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.

Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.