The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

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.

Every tough situation, toughen the soul.

Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand.

The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.

I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

Beautiful people do not just happen

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

I’m losing my mind without you.