Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current
The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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