Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.
I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.
Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.