I want to kiss you so very badly, Rose. But I can't. And its killing me"-Mr. Stone

Do Not Lie to Yourself We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.

The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence

I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Are you in love with me, Camryn Bennett?” … “Not yet,” I say with a smile in my voice, “but I’m getting there.

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.