The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

Let us applaud the howls of the ignorant extremists as we stand on a knife-edge, not glad, but in acknowledgement of the bad, sad, mad gifts that the regime continue to offer us.

I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.

Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

I'd rather meet Spider-man than some creator that would put me in real awe!

When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.