‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

What cannot be cured must be endured.

Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed.

Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job.

Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.

In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head, The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.