Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
The job of the evangelist is never easy.
We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.
One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.
It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench. Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.
People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that. . . it's like, too much.
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!