...all cynicism masks a failure to cope..

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them..

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what y….

Time is not a road - it is a room..

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid..

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good..

The profoundest distances are never geographical..

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that..

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world..

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they wer….

The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of th….

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society..

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem….

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice thin….

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive..

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more..

I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself tha….

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be….

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination….

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end..

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself..