I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America.

If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere.

A zest for living must include a willingness to die.