I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

Even in the fiercest battles the Butterflies and Bee's still kiss the flowers.

May the light of God's love lead us always through the valleys.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic.