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Muriel Spark

"If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life."

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Sarah Waters

"I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it."

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Shirley Jackson

"Am I walking towards something I should be running away from?"

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Guy Endore

"A real politician, and these were real politicians, never betrays his country to an outsider. He betrays it to himself. He is the enemy within."

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Boris Pasternak

"As for the men in power,

they are so anxious to establish

the myth of infallibility that they

do their utmost to ignore truth."

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Dorothy L. Sayers

"Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch and break into an inflorescence of pinnacles."

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Charles Dickens

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."