It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

Paul Theroux

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Leo Tolstoy

The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Natalie Imbruglia

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Edward George BulwerLytton

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Rebecca West

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

Paul Nurse

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

Carl Gustav Jung, The Meaning of

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Francis John McConnell

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

J. B. Priestley

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Confucius

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)