I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.

...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

One is always at home in one's past...

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

I'll be whatever you allow me to be, Blaire. Just don't shut me out again. Please.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.