Who is willing to suffer for a Savior they won't even trouble themselves to learn about?

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.