The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won’t.
I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.
Islands are natural workshops of evolution.
Natural selection is anything but random.
'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
Religion is a distraction from true education.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
To be the man, you gotta beat the man!
None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.
I bleed like nobody else.
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
I write the way I write.
