You have to do what your heart dictates, " Vivian says. "Do you believe that?""Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.

One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye.

And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him.

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.

The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. Be Silent And Listen.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.