"The public has a right to know the truth, even if it is uncomfortable."

"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place."

"It is a truism that in this world of ours, just as in the world of the ancient Greeks, whom we have taught ourselves to admire, there is a certain fatalism."

"The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate lite…"

"Who has the time to feel the earth beneath their feet, or the wind in their hair, or the sun on their face?"