"This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them."
"Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot."
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
"It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes."