until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength

Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.

I love the water; I love to swim.

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.