You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.

My soul recognized him and it was easy to be in sync with him—to feel like I’d known him forever.

I don't feel any sense of competition at all, and that might be my naïveté, but I don't feel pitted against anyone at all.

I loved the seventies.

Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.