We cannot get grace from gadgets.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!

Sincerity is nothing to express, it appears over the period. Just try to hold and wait....

The world embarrasses me and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.