Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative, Elloren Gardner, is to live your life based on injustice and lies.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.