The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class and everyone from it I've met and think they're incredibly witty inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
