My nervous system is enfeebled only work in oils can sustain me.

America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system but too early to shoot the bastards.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates but the truth is they're running the asylum.

In every truth the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Listen friends you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few and your name is not among them not now and not ever.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Truth lives in fact for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass so long as nothing challenges them just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.