The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74

Unto us Saviour is born at Christmas.The love and light of the World.

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.