The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

I hope that I have a body of work by the time that I'm done with all of this that I'm proud of. Certainly the cornerstone will always be Wonder Woman and I love her.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.