I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels..

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not..

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational..

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated..

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday a….

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death..

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help..

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them..

A busybody's work is never done..

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy..

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England..

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated..

One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clo….

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table..

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines..

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being op….

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well….

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year..

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female popul….

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to th….

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerf….