I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.
Our lives disappear, even as we live them.
If you feel lucky, then you are.
It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.
I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
Racism, prejudice and discrimination are an inexplicable collective stupidity
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.