Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.
A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.
What is written is more influential than what is said.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced. . . I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong. . . No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.
The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.