I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

艺术不是你看到的，而是你让别人看到的。

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

History is not just about facts, but about the meanings we give them.

Writing is a way of life, a way of understanding the world and of understanding ourselves.