"What do you mean by sound government?'Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the..."
- P.D. James
"Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best."
"Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much."
"Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel."
"Every island to a child is a treasure island."
"It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassio..."
"If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better c..."
"You won't get love from a child if you don't give love."
"I don’t think He bargains.”“Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He’s supposed to he just. If He wants belief He’d better provi..."
"The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted. "