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The house was dark. Upstairs, behind the black open window with the pale curtain flapping in the spartan air, slept Arthur Morrison, trainer of the forty-three racehorses in the stables below....

I smiled into the clever eyes. Find out for me, I said, whether Oliver

ones. I could see that I would be inevitably eased out, and not by doubt but by concern.

Lightheartedness was a treasure in a world too full of sorrows, a treasure little regarded and widely forfeited to agression, greed and horrendous tribal rituals.

Gawd, he thought furiously, he hadn't expected it to be like this. Just a lousy walk down the yard to give a carrot to the gangly chestnut. Guilt and fear and treachery. They bypassed his sneering...

Tyrants come and go, tyranny is constant.

unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes, and they were simply open but seeing nothing.

their water and hay, hours lying awake at night listening to the stamp of the horses below and the snores and mumblings from the row of beds. Over and over again I thought my way through all I had...

Reason said it was wasn't long enough. Instinct said it was.

Thought before action, if you have time

Chick forced himself to turn his head away, to walk in view of that window, to take the ten exposed steps down to the chestnut's stall.

I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it.

In the context of ten thousand years, I thought, what did Filmer and his sins matter? Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought....

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.

Boyfriend? Francis said. Really? Yes. Why is that a surprise? Looking away from Reg, Francis started typing. I didn't figure you for gay. I'm sitting here being interrogated because I'm dating your...

I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so long that straightening them out was like six bouts with an octopus.

She said several times that Malcollm was a fiend who was determined to destroy his children, and that I was the devil incarnate helping him. She hoped we would both rot in hell. {I thought devils and...

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said {as he had been invited five or six times that morning}, 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if...

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

Mrs Palis­sey and I tend­ed to have the same con­ver­sa­tions over and over and slight­ly too of­ten.

Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always be considered an insult. Always remember that umbrage can be taken by the lift of an...

To be logical you have to dig up and face your own hidden motives and emotions, and of course they're hidden principally because you don't want to face them.So...um...it's easier to let your basement...

Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long...

The bad scorn the good . . . and the crooked despise the straight.~Greville

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

I hadn't had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... {God took your mother, dear, because...

one should never assume anything

Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took...

May I deal with honourMay I act with courageMay I achieve humility