"By being so long in the lowest..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

“One ought to be just before one is generous”

“A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.”

“A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.”

“I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.”

“Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.”

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.”

“There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.”