My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Money was their God; work their religion.
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.