The course of true love was never easy.

How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.

The way we see the problem is the problem.

You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?"<br> What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.

Democracy works. Against us.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

If you fear change, leave it here.