Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words justice, compassion,...
Good. I do dislike discussing wine longer than I need.
Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.
He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love.
This is a Christian country, my dear brother, and the wages of sin are supposed to be death, not eight bob of the taxpayers’ money.
Murder changes everything.
A murderer about their victim:)He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and...
With the death of what described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out...
The essential self is fixed well before the thirteenth birthday. It may be influenced by experience but it is seldom changed.
Guilt is more commonly felt by the innocent than by the culpable,
The truth was sometimes more fatal than a lie.
It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not c...
Fear is the devil to hide.
Impresionante
You won't get love from a child if you don't give love.
When secrets are unspoken and unwritten they are lodged safely in the mind, but writing them down seems to let them loose and give them the power to spread like pollen on the air and enter into other...
We need, all of us, to be in control of our lives, and we shrink them until they're small and mean enough so that we feel in control.
The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.