Occupation: Novelist Birth: October 22, 1919 Death: November 17, 2013
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real demo….
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutalit….
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents..
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible..
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at ….
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way..
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself..
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our e….
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable..
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion..
Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that..
What matters most is that we learn from living..
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools..
we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination..
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing th….
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself..
I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even notic….
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk….
It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began t….
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer..
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our ….