It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

Every secret deed lays opened before God.

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life

To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astrayand its inhabitants what could be a safer place than my imagination?

Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.