If you had one day left to live, what would you do?

I think...I think its always been you who was dying, "- Delaney

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

I dont believe God's called me to survive the world but to change it for His glory.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.